Thanks for sharing this perspective. A few years ago, I started learning C with the aim of contributing to GNU coreutils and other utilities that come with a GN

Thanks for sharing this perspective. A few years ago, I started learning C with the aim of contributing to GNU coreutils and other utilities that come with a GNU/Linux system. I read most of the K&R book and thought I had a decent grasp of the C language but when I cloned the coreutils source code, I couldn’t figure it out and gave up, thinking I’d need a lot more experience before I could understand production-quality code. It’s reassuring to find out it wasn’t just me that struggled with the complexity of the code base. Since then, I’ve discovered (thanks to Hacker News) Decoded: GNU coreutils¹, a “resource for novice programmers exploring the design of command-line utilities” but unfortunately, I no longer have the capacity or free time to spend on coding. ¹ https://www.maizure.org/projects/decoded-gnu-coreutils/index.html https://www.maizure.org/projects/decoded-gnu-coreutils/index...